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==Diplomatic missions and exploration of the world==
[[Image:Yongle-Giraffe1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An African [[giraffe]] being
|first=J.J.L.|last= Duyvendak|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4527170
|title=The True Dates of the Chinese Maritime Expeditions in the Early Fifteenth Century The True Dates of the Chinese Maritime Expeditions in the Early Fifteenth Century
|journal=T'oung Pao, Second Series| volume= 34|issue= 5|year=1939|page=402}}</ref>]]
{{See|Chinese exploration}}
As part of his desire to expand Chinese influence throughout the known world, Emperor Yongle sponsored the massive and long term [[Zheng He]] expeditions. While Chinese boats continued traveling to Japan, [[Ryukyu]], and many location in South-East Asia both before and after the Yongle era, Zheng He's expeditions were China's only major sea-going explorations of the world (although the Chinese may have been sailing to [[Arabia]], [[East Africa]], and [[Egypt]] since the [[Tang Dynasty]], from AD 618-907<ref>
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